The Talk of the Town (1927–1946)

Featured Films:

‑ ‑ ‑  The Advent of Sound-on-Film

• Part One. 1895–1925

• The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894/1895)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1900)
• Anna, What Are You Waiting For? (1911)
• Jack’s Joke (1913)
• Demonstration of Sound on Film (1921/1922)
• Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (1925) — [presumed lost]
• A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1923)
• Gus Visser and His Singing Duck (1925)

• Part Two. 1926

• Vitaphone Prelude (1926)
• Scenes from Don Juan (1926)

060. The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927)

062. Blackmail (Hitchcock, 1929)

063. Under the Roofs of Paris (Clair, 1930)

064. The Blue Angel (von Sternberg, 1930)

065. M (Lang, 1931)

066. King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933)

067. Frankenstein (Whale, 1931)

068. Scarface (Hawks, 1932)

069. Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)

070. 42nd Street (Bacon, 1933)

071. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)

072. Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 1932)

073. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)

074. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)

075. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)

076. The Private Life of Henry VIII (Korda, 1933)

077. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock, 1935)

078. L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934)

079. Port of Shadows (Carné, 1938)

080. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)

081. Devdas (Barua, 1935)

082. Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi, 1936)

083. Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka, 1937)

084. Street Angel (Yuan, 1937)

085. Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein, 1938)

‑ ‑ ‑  The Transition to Color Cinematography

• Part One. 1895–1921

• Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
• A Trip to the Moon (1902, hand-colored version)
• A Trip to Jupiter (1909)
• The Mills in Joy and Sorrow (1912)
• Turner color experiments (1901–1902)
• A Visit to the Seaside (1908)
• With the King and Queen Through India (1912)
• Concerning $1000 (1916)
• Sunshine Gatherers (1921)

• Part Two. 1922–1935

• Scenes from The Toll of the Sea (1922)
• Scenes from Becky Sharp (1935)

086. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)

087. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz & Keighly, 1938)

088. Gone with the Wind (Fleming, 1939)

089. Dance, Girl, Dance (Arzner, 1940)

090. The Blood of Jesus (Williams, 1941)

091. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

092. The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)

093. The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)

094. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)

095. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)

096. Fires Were Started (Jennings, 1943)

097. Ossessione (Visconti, 1943)

098. The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi, 1941–1942)

• Part One. The 47 Ronin, Part I (1941)
• Part Two. The 47 Ronin, Part II (1942)

099. Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein, 1944–1946*)

• Part One. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
• Part Two. Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1946, released 1958)

100. Children of Paradise (Carné, 1945)